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The money in the family was used by Bondy’s parents to establish progressive education schools, first in Europe..." wikitext text/x-wiki Bondy was born Heinz Kristoff Erich on the 2ⁿd of June, 1924 to Jewish parents in Bad Gandersheim, Germany. His grandfather on his father’s side had been what Bondy referred to as a “Jewish peddler with a tray around his neck selling stuff from it”, and had become a multi-millionaire in the fields of banking, real estate and sugar imports from Brazil. The money in the family was used by Bondy’s parents to establish progressive education schools, first in Europe and then in the USA. His mother, Gertrud Bondy had studied with Sigmund Freud in Vienna, and been friends with his daughter, Anna Freud. In 1937, the family closed their school in Germany, and also closed their school in Switzerland taking their funding to the USA, along with ‘anti-fascist’ émigré students, one of whom was the daughter of the writer for Die Aktion; Carl Zuckmeyer. Zuckmeyer had previously left Germany following the rise of the National Socialists due to his Jewish ancestry, and spent his wartime years drawing character portraits of prominent Germans for the OSS. Through their friendship with Zuckmeyer, the Bondy family managed to make friends with many high profile figures such as Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Dorothy Thompson, some of whose children became part of the first student body of the Bondy family’s new school; Windsor Mountain. They were also acquainted with many of the other ‘Exilliteratur’ writers who had migrated from Europe to the USA. Heinz Bondy attended Windsor Mountain School, after which he attended Wagner College in Staten Island; however he only stayed for 3 months on account of his nationality. He then studied Modern European History at Swarthmore College before joining the US Army. At first he was stationed with the mountain troops at a camp in Colorado, which he had chosen for his love of skiing, and described it as a “terrible place”. After 8 months he was suddenly transferred to Camp Ritchie thanks to his fluency in German. Bondy recalled of his time at Ritchie; “Ritchie was a very strange camp. It was near Baltimore. Actually, it was in the Catoctin Mountains, and almost everybody had a different mother tongue than English.” He learned about the order of the German army, and that the rules at Ritchie were incredibly strict regarding torture, that it was not to be used “Absolute rules. Don't touch. You can play whatever intellectual trick you want to play on them to make them talk, but you can't touch them.” After training at the MITC, Bondy was shipped to the European Theatre as part of an IPW team, and claims to have interrogated several thousand people. He was injured at the Normandy Landings and received a Purple Heart, but the injuries were minor enough that he could continue his duties not too long after. Bondy noted that talking to the prisoners immediately after capture was best, as they were still psychologically traumatized. At the end of the war, he stayed with the Military Government in Germany, and spent his time trying to “find anybody who wasn’t a Nazi” to place into interim government positions, and claimed that the only people he could find were those who had been in camps, but that it was difficult as many were not apt for roles in governance. He was also particularly dismayed at the sentiments of General Patton towards the end of the war, citing that Patton had “decided that the Nazis were just like Republicans and Democrats, and we should let them all go.” When asked if that revelation was ‘galling’, he answered; “Yes, it was. And I will admit that most of the people I was with cheered when they heard Patton was killed.” After discharge, Bondy returned to the USA and took a position at the Windsor Mountain School, working with his parents. In 1951, his father died and so Bondy was made headmaster of the school and served there until 1975. The school was known as ‘ultra-progressive’; the students were not made to wear uniforms, there was a racially mixed student body prior to the civil rights era and the students had a role in governing how the school was run. The children of famous individuals such as Harry Belafonte, Thelonious Monk, Pete Seeger, Henry Fonda, Randy Weston, Congressman Charles Diggs and Clifford Durr attended over the years. One former student, Public Administrator Gill Hickman recalled of Windsor Mountain; “We had a lot of Hollywood influence there too because we had a lot of celebrities’ kids there… Well, we had Harry Belafonte’s daughter. Both his daughters went there. His oldest daughter went there with me, and his youngest daughter came after we graduated… We had like Leontyne Price came up and she sang for us. Roscoe Lee Browne invited us to his plays.” Leontyne Price was the wife of Ritchie Boy William Warfield, and the contact for the school who brought the likes of her, Johnny Mathis and Eddie Fisher to perform was the German born Jewish physician Max Jacobson, most notable for administering cocktails of narcotics via injection to President John F. Kennedy, earning him the title of ‘Dr. Feelgood’. Jacobson’s daughter attended the school, and he was noted at the time for administering cocktails of drugs to not only high profile celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Thelonious Monk and Marilyn Monroe, but in later years students at the school claimed that all who attended the school were taking his shots, students and faculty alike. Bondy himself was known to have been administering himself with Jacobson’s ‘miracle shots’, which included amphetamines and methamphetamines, at one point leading to him crashing a plane he was flying close to Route 7. Over the years, drugs became a prevalent part of the culture of Windsor Mountain, and substances from marijuana to LSD and heroin were known to have permeated life on the campus. Sexual promiscuity was also rife and increased over the years; in some instances this included sexual encounters between faculty and students. In 1968, one of the students at the school perished in a fire in the chemical lab, after a botched attempt to steal substances to “get high on”. Along with the students of famous figures, at least one student; John Mwangi was a Kenyan student who had been given the opportunity to study thanks to the Kennedy Airlift, a program partially orchestrated by the wife of Ritchie Boy Peter Weiss; Cora Weiss. Bondy offered the school as part of the ‘A Better Chance’ program and it served as one of the founding members. Despite funding from celebrity parents, Bondy was very generous with his grants and offered more and more places to disadvantaged children. The funding slowly dried up, and the school continued to receive bad press due to reports of at least one stabbing (as part of a drug turf war) and at least one rape. The school had famous educators such as Gerald Hausman and Hans Meader at times, but ultimately the school closed in 1975. When asked what difference Bondy had made with the school, he replied “If I made anyone's life a little better, that would be a good thing.” After Windsor Mountain closed, Bondy continued in the field of education and held administrative posts at the University of Massachusetts, and helped found Elkins Mountain Schools in Elkins. He moved to the Washington area in 1989 to serve as headmaster of the old Canterbury School in Accokeek. Bondy then moved to Mount Rainier and served as the director of the Christian Family Montessori School until his retirement in 1998. He passed away on the 19th of February, 2014. 36b0585cf679cafed39afc6e4382982266cb153d 3 2 2024-06-29T02:10:11Z Jfreeling 2 Blanked the page wikitext text/x-wiki da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709